Friday, June 06, 2008

Getting there by bicycle

I am thinking, if each business adds the direction to its location by bike to its web site more people will be motivated to leave the cars behind. I am thinking malls, shopping centers, banks, pharmacies and etc. With the price of oil on the rise, with no slowdown in sight, it is becoming imperative to conserve. Although we knew this was going to happen, after all we hit the $99 a barrel mark 2 years ago, we still feel we have been caught off guard. Farmers driven by market are selling their crops of corn to producers of bio-fuels. This, along with high cost of energy, has shot the price of food up by 10-20%. There is no hard evidence to prove that bio-fuel is green alternative to fossil fuels.I digress.The point is, facilitating commuting by bike by providing information on the bike routes is an easy way of showing commitment to being green.